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Thessalonika noun 1. The title of my novel about a girl willing to sacrifice her name and her identity 2. The middle name of Cleo Hart, a scholarship student at a prestigious New England university in the 1950’s 3. A feminized form of “Thessaloniki,” a city in Greece possibly named after Alexander the Great’s half-sister

2 young buys fine the journal of an Astronaut to find that he had visited the perfect world. performed by Val Cole

On a terraformed world, lovers are reunited as caretakers in a hospice for dying astronauts. They have issues to work out, especially their attitude toward one of the astronauts and astronauts in general. Voice Over by Val Cole

Voice Over: Val Cole

Voice Over: Val Cole

Did I leave the laundry out for so long, it flew away? No longer could suspend the heat of the iron Lose her wrinkle Just to sink back onto this body Did I hold my tongue for enough time? Do I finally forget the shape of you? Will the others stop tasting like an afterthought?… Continue reading Read Poem: ???, by Olivia Laughlin

I walked to my girl cousin’s bookshelf She has more books than I do Also, more written by women books So I took one And read feminist poetry to the sound of the washing machine Poetically waiting for the laundry to be ready Reading and doing laundry Como las mujeres de antaño Haciendo quehacer Cosas… Continue reading Read Poem: If not then, when?, Alejandra Blanco